What kind of soup to prepare for the whole family: do you want a hearty and healthy lunch?

Do you love soup as much as I do? Hope so! Because what is soup? Soup is the basis of family well-being and mental comfort.

Serve a tired husband a plate of fresh hot soup in the evening, and you don’t have to say the sacramental: “I love you, I worry about you, it’s important to me that you feel good”... The soup itself will say everything, show you and let you feel it. And how many friends with a broken heart have been consoled with soup in my kitchen? Don't count it! Because a broken heart never refused a bowl of soup. Which is typical.

Thinking about soup as a significant part of our life, I had to admit: not a single dish is present in it as fully and voluminously as soup. Want to check it out? Please. Here are just the main characters of the soups that came to my mind and memory. You can add!

Step-by-step recipe for making sauerkraut cabbage soup with mushrooms (with photo)

First, we cook meat broth from pork shank; it can be prepared in advance, in your free time, and then just reheated.

To prepare it, you need to boil 500 grams of meat, preferably with bones, until tender, in salted water for a tasty broth.

The broth is ready, put the frying pan on the fire, pour a little vegetable oil

Peel and cut 1 onion into long slices

Add the onion to the hot oil and fry it until lightly browned.

In the meantime, let’s take our meat with bones out of the broth and separate it into its components (separate the meat from the bones)

Add mushrooms to our broth (dried white mushrooms, cut into strips) pre-soaked in boiling water 1.5 hours before cooking

We take out the mushrooms themselves and cut them into small pieces, and carefully pour the remaining mushroom infusion without sediment into our broth, you can use a fine sieve

Add chopped mushrooms to the broth

Sauerkraut, if it is shredded into long strips, should be cut into approximately 3 cm pieces

We put the cabbage on the browned onion in a frying pan; ideally, it should be further sent to the Russian oven so that it stews and browns, but we will use what we have, so we will preheat the oven to 200 degrees, put the frying pan there and wait until it browns and becomes slightly reddish

We cut the pieces of meat, there is no need to grind it too much, and return it to the broth

I also recommend adding a few chopped pieces of raw smoked bacon for flavor and richness; add it to the broth

While the cabbage is stewing and the broth continues to cook, peel 2 large cloves of garlic and parsley, we will add it in 2 doses, first finely chop the parsley stems and add them to the pan

The cabbage is browned and combine the baked cabbage and onions with the broth

Let the cabbage soup simmer for a few more minutes, 1 - 2 minutes before readiness (check the readiness of the mushrooms) add finely chopped garlic and parsley leaves

Bon appetit!

You can read another recipe for cabbage soup in the material “Simple Soup Recipes”

Chum salmon and mushroom soup

To prepare chum salmon soup with mushrooms you will need:

• 500 g chum salmon;
• bulb;
• 150 – 200 g champignons, fresh or frozen;
• frying oil;
• 3 – 4 potatoes;
• 3 tbsp. l. millet;
• spices and spices, herbs.

How to prepare this delicious soup:

1. Wash the fish, put in 1.5 - 2 liters of water, and cook traditional broth. At the end of cooking, after about 25 - 30 minutes, add bay leaves, dried thyme, salt, and turn off after 5 minutes.
2. Remove the fish and filter the broth.
3. Chop the onion, fry in oil for 4 - 5 minutes, add chopped mushrooms to it and fry until almost done.
4. Cut the potatoes. Rinse the millet.
5. Place millet, potatoes, and fried mushrooms into the boiling broth at 5-minute intervals. Boil the soup until done.
6. A few minutes before the end, taste, add salt to taste, add fresh herbs.
7. Remove the fish from the bones, place in the soup, turn off the heat and let sit, covered, for about 10 minutes before serving. If desired, season with ground pepper before serving.

Note: if there is no chum salmon, it can be replaced with pink salmon and catfish, taken in equal quantities, 250 - 300 g each. Pink salmon will create taste and thickness, and catfish will create fat. It is useful to add vegetables to this fish soup along with frying. They will add some texture to the flavor bouquet, tomatoes and sweet peppers will add the aroma of summer, and pumpkin will add the aroma of autumn.

Step-by-step recipe for pumpkin soup with mushrooms, quick and tasty

Let's make pumpkin soup, it will be bright orange

For this we need a pumpkin, peeled, 700 grams, for this soup I recommend taking a nutmeg pumpkin variety, it is an elongated variety, similar to a jug, it has a wonderful apple aroma, if, of course, you don’t have one, you can use any

• Next, we need red bell peppers, carrots, 2 peeled potatoes, 1 apple, 1 medium onion, several stalks of celery, champignon mushrooms and parsley
• We will boil the parsley and celery whole, then at the end they will need to be removed from the broth
• We start with the fact that all the vegetables need to be boiled together in one broth, to do this we put them in a pan, you can cut them so that they boil faster

Place all boiled vegetables in a blender and puree

Add a large spoonful of heavy cream with 60% fat content and beat everything with a blender.

Fry fresh mushrooms in oil in a frying pan, a few pieces (3 - 4) can be added to a blender and blended with the soup, the rest will be served whole

Pour the soup back into the pan, put on the fire, bring to a boil

Add half a teaspoon of turmeric, do not add any other spices

Pour the soup into a plate, add a few pieces of fried mushrooms and sprinkle with dill.

Also read the step-by-step recipe for pumpkin soup in a slow cooker and the recipe for cinnamon and cardamom soup.

Healthy soup

A long time ago, when I was a child, I was a big fan of chivalric novels. Well, Walter Scott is there, Dumas and others. As you know, knights are pugnacious creatures. And in almost every novel, after a battle, tournament or duel, knights were certainly brought back to life with soup! Necessarily. In reality, there are also magic soups that help us fight the disease, no matter what it is. This is a tender chicken soup after a severe sore throat, a hearty stew that helps restore strength, and a vegetable puree soup that heals stomach ailments.

I want to remind you of the classic restorative chicken soup. Only it will be the famous “Jewish antibiotic” - chicken soup with kneidlach.

You will need: 3 tbsp. chicken fat, 1 cup matzo meal, 2 eggs, 2 tbsp. finely chopped parsley, salt, ground black pepper to taste, 2 liters of strong chicken broth, 5-6 cloves of garlic, 1 bunch of dill

Preparation: Finely chop the chicken fat, heat it in a frying pan with a thick bottom, set aside the cracklings. In a large bowl, mix matzo flour, eggs, cracklings and parsley, add salt and pepper to taste. Add water a teaspoon at a time, knead the dough, the consistency of which is similar to very thick sour cream, cover with a lid and put in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.

Pour water into a saucepan, boil, then reduce heat to low. With wet hands, form the dough into balls the size of large plums and carefully place them in the water. Cook over low heat at low simmer for 15-20 minutes. Remove the dumplings with a slotted spoon, transfer to a plate and leave for 20-30 minutes to harden. Heat the broth. Peel the garlic, chop finely. Wash the dill, shake off the water, chop finely. Place 2-3 kneadels into portioned plates, pour hot broth, sprinkle with herbs and garlic.

Advice for the recipe: It is better to buy chicken or fillet fresh, not frozen - the most attractive thing about this dish is the chicken (or rabbit), its aroma, and the softness of the meat. And you don't need to cook for long. From 40 minutes to 1 hour, maximum.

Soup with dumplings, step-by-step recipe with photos

Prepares soup with dumplings, or as they are also called dumplings

What we need to prepare this soup:

All the ingredients have been collected, let's start, prepare the dough for the dumplings separately

First of all, prepare chicken broth, you can use beef broth

We start with potatoes - cut them into small cubes and add them to the broth

Chop the onion, put it in hot oil in a frying pan, grate the carrots on a coarse grater and add it there, fry it

We make dumplings, these products are needed for the dough

Pour water into a cup, add a tablespoon of olive oil and place on the stove, add some salt

The water has boiled, remove the cup and gradually add flour - brew the dough, stir very quickly

Add crushed garlic, egg, mix thoroughly and if necessary add a little flour so that it is not a liquid dough

At the very end, add grated cheese, mix thoroughly - the dough is ready

When the potatoes have boiled until half cooked, add the bay leaf and fry

Now, using two teaspoons, throw the dumplings into the soup (dip the spoons in water so that the dough does not stick, take half a spoonful of dough on one and drop it into the boiling soup, helping the second)

Seafood soup

How often do we have to think about using the remaining ingredients after preparing the main dish. Many of us love seafood, in particular shrimp. And after boiling the shrimp, what remains is a nutritious, rich broth with a unique taste and a unique set of nutrients. Many housewives get rid of it, but shrimp broth can serve as a base for creamed seafood soup.

For seafood puree soup for 4 servings we will need:

• 1 liter of shrimp broth;
• 1 onion;
• 300 gr. broccoli cabbage;
• 200 gr. frozen seafood cocktail or young octopus;
• 100 gr. cream 10%;
• 2 tablespoons flour;
• 20 gr. butter;
• salt to taste, because the broth is already salted.

Note: the amount of ingredients may vary, depending on the personal preferences and wishes of the guests, namely: by adding more cream - which will give greater tenderness to the taste and change the color to pistachio; and flour - which will affect the thickness of our puree soup.

Recipe:

Strain the broth through a colander, put it on the stove, and let it boil. Place broccoli in boiling shrimp broth and simmer for 15 minutes. Fry the onion in vegetable oil until tender; at the end of frying, add flour and dissolve the butter. Add the resulting mixture to the shrimp broth with broccoli. Grind the ingredients with a blender. Add a seafood cocktail (or octopus) and simmer for another 15 minutes. Add cream and let it boil.

Pour into plates, serve with a parsley leaf and, if desired, croutons from white bread cubes.

Vermicelli milk soup recipe

Cooking milk soup with noodles

For this we need vermicelli, water, milk, salt, sugar

• Pour some water into the pan and place over high heat until it boils.
• Add milk and bring to a boil
• We make sure that when boiling the milk does not rise up and “run away”
• If the milk begins to rise, stir it immediately or remove it from the heat.
• When boiling, reduce heat
• At this time you can add salt and sugar to taste
• While stirring, add vermicelli and stir immediately
• If the milk boils immediately, it is better to remove it from the heat.
• Wait for the foam to settle and let it cook again.
• Vermicelli is thin, so the soup cooks quickly
• Cook for 1 – 3 minutes, turn off the heat, close the lid
• Vermicelli will be ready
• Pour into a plate with a piece of butter on top - very tasty.

You can find a selection of recipes for milk soups in the material - simple milk soups

Secrets of making soup

There are certain recommendations on how to properly prepare soup.

Here are some of them:

1. You should not put a lot of vegetables in veal broth soup, as they will interrupt the flavor of the meat.
2. You don't need to add a lot of spices to the chicken broth. They can ruin the taste.
3. Delicious soup will only turn out over low heat.
4. When frying the onions, add a pinch of sugar. This will improve the color of the roast.
5. Add salt 10 minutes before the end of cooking. If you suddenly have too much salt, add potatoes or a bag of rice to the soup.

You can quickly prepare a broth-based dish. It can be made from lamb, ribs or chicken, as well as other types of meat.

During cooking, components such as parsley, bay leaf and herbs are added. Bone broths are especially flavorful. You can also make fish broth.

For this you will need trout, pike, carp or perch. During cooking, you can add carrots, onions and bay leaves.

To make a delicious mushroom broth, porcini mushrooms are used, as well as champignons and chanterelles. Children can make chicken broth.

In this case, you need to thoroughly rinse and pluck the carcass. To enhance the taste, add onions and carrots. The broth can be prepared in advance with a supply of several days.

It must be stored in a closed container.

Meat broths can be stored for up to two days.

To increase the shelf life of the product, it can be frozen. In this case, the container must be perfectly clean and well closed.

Step-by-step recipe for pickle soup, how to properly cook with barley and pickles

Rassolnik is an old Russian dish in which brine is always added.

To prepare it we will need: meat, in this case pork bones, potatoes, pearl barley, which should be soaked in water several hours before cooking, pickles with brine, black and red pepper, onions, carrots, salt, bay leaves and herbs

First of all, pour water into the meat in the pan and cook the broth, do not forget to descale

Add soaked pearl barley and cook for 40 minutes

• We cut the cucumbers, we will add them 2 times, we will add the first one along with the potatoes and then before they are ready
• Chop the potatoes, grate the carrots, finely chop the onion
• Lay potatoes, add cucumbers

We begin to prepare the frying, fry the onions and carrots in vegetable oil

Remove the meat from the broth, separate it from the bones and cut into small pieces

Return the chopped meat to the broth, a few more finely chopped cucumbers and add the roast

Add a little salt and pour in 100 grams of cucumber brine to taste and saltiness, cook for another 5 minutes until done

• Add chopped garlic, bay leaf and dried herbs, black and red pepper
• Stir, turn off the stove or leave on the lowest heat for 5 - 7 minutes
• The rassolnik is ready, you can serve it with sour cream.

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Hungarian soup

This recipe for ordinary soup is close in composition to most soups, and in its preparation method it is reminiscent of classic Hungarian soup. It is very healthy, satisfying and even calming, and can replace a full lunch. The soup recipe is very simple, because you can add various vegetables, bell peppers or tomatoes to it, or replace the pumpkin with zucchini or eggplant.

Products:

• bulb or small leek, white part of the stem;
• vegetable oil;
• large carrots;
• 300 – 400 g lean beef pulp;
• 300 - 400 g each of potatoes and pumpkin;
• 150 g stalk celery;
• salt, spices and seasonings.

Preparation:

1. Chop the onion and fry in oil in a frying pan until translucent.
2. Finely grate the carrots, add to the saucepan, and simmer until the color changes.
3. Cut the beef into small pieces, place in a roasting pan with the vegetables, and simmer over low heat with a lid on for 35-40 minutes. At this time, it is advisable not to open the fryer, so you must immediately either add oil or pour a little water.
4. Peel the vegetables, cut the pumpkin and potatoes into cubes, and thinly slice the celery.
5. Place the potatoes in the frying pan, after a few minutes the pumpkin, then the celery, simmer for another couple of minutes.
6. Pour hot water into the frying pan to obtain the consistency of a thick soup, cook until the potatoes are ready.
7. 3 - 5 minutes before the end of cooking, add your favorite spices and seasonings to the potatoes, dill, thyme or sage, be sure to add bay leaf, salt and pepper. After turning off the heat, leave for a while to allow the soup to steep. Serve with mayonnaise or sour cream. If desired, prepare the sauce: beat sour cream and tomato paste in equal proportions, add herbs to the sauce.

Chicken and zucchini soup

Chicken and zucchini soup is a light, but at the same time satisfying soup.

Often, zucchini is fried or stewed, but they can also be added to soup. It will turn out quite unusual and tasty, be sure to prepare this dish.

Ingredients for making soup

• one chicken breast;
• two potato tubers;
• one zucchini;
• one carrot;
• onion;
• salt (to taste);
• green onions (for decoration);
• dill greens (for decoration);
• water 2 liters.

Soup preparation method

1. Boil the chicken breast until cooked.

2. Cut the potatoes, zucchini and onions into small cubes, and the carrots into rings.

3. Place all the vegetables in the broth and cook them for about 30 minutes.

The soup is ready! Serve it along with chopped herbs.

Potato soup with dumplings

Dumpling soup is very easy to prepare and at the same time it has a pleasant taste that will not leave anyone indifferent.

To prepare potato soup with dumplings you will need

• potatoes - 5 pieces;
• carrots, one piece;
• one onion;
• lard 50 gr.;
• salt, to taste;
• bay leaf 1-2 pcs.;
• black peppercorns 5-6 pcs.;
• 2 liters of water.

Ingredients for dumplings:

• water or milk 150 gr.;
• 2 eggs;
• flour 200 gr.;
• butter 50 gr.;

Dumpling soup recipe

1. Pour water into a saucepan, bring to a boil and add salt.

2. Throw diced potatoes into boiling water and cook for about 20 minutes over low heat.

3. Sauté diced onions and grated carrots on melted lard.

4. Add sautéing and bay leaf to the potatoes.

5. After this, dip the dumplings into the water with a teaspoon (combine the egg, milk, butter, flour) and cook for about 10 minutes until all the dumplings float to the top.

Sprinkle the finished soup with chopped herbs. Bon appetit!

How to cook?

Place the whole or cut into pieces chicken in a large saucepan, add water and salt. Add peppercorns, halved garlic and onion. Cover with a lid and cook until tender, about 30-40 minutes. after boiling.

Carve the finished chicken: remove the skin, discard excess fat and remove fillets from the bones. Strain the broth and bring the saucepan back to a boil.

Now add the chopped potatoes. Place grated carrots and one chopped onion in a frying pan, add 2 tbsp. l. broth and simmer for 15 minutes. Place the finished roast into the soup. Now add the noodles and cook for about five minutes. Add dried thyme, chopped parsley to the soup, pepper and salt to taste. Simple chicken soup is ready!

Soup with cheese, peas and smoked sausages

Soak the peas ahead of time before making this delicious soup. The swollen cereal will boil in literally an hour or less. You can speed up the process by adding a pinch of soda to boiling peas. The alkali promotes faster cooking without leaving a characteristic aftertaste or smell.

Required:

• Peas – 200 gr.;
• Carrots – 1 pc.;
• Onion – 1 large;
• Potatoes – 3 tons;
• Soft processed cheese – 100 gr.;
• Smoked sausages – 200-300 gr.;
• Water – 3 l.;
• Greens - to taste;
• Salt - 1/2 tbsp. l.;
• Butter – 30 gr.

Soup with cheese, peas and smoked sausages

How to cook:

1. Wash the peas, add water, and let the soup cook. Recipes with photos are simple and tasty and can be prepared quickly, and now you will see for yourself.
2. After the water boils, skim off the foam and reduce the heat.
3. Leave to cook for 40 minutes (if the cereal was soaked in advance).
4. Peel the vegetables, chop the onion, cut the carrots into thin strips, and potatoes into small cubes.
5. Cut the sausages into slices into a separate bowl.
6. Grate the cheese.
7. Heat a frying pan with butter and saute the carrots.
8. After 40 minutes of cooking, salt the broth, add potatoes and onions to the soup.
9. The recipe with photos is simple and quick to prepare. Leave the potatoes to cook for 15 minutes, add salt and season with spices.
10. Add carrots, sausages and grated cheese.
11. Cook until the cheese is completely melted (15 minutes).
12. Serve in a plate with finely chopped herbs.

Soup without meat

How to make a simple soup without meat? This dietary dish can be offered to both babies under one year old and adults. To create it you need to have:

• 700 ml water;
• three potatoes;
• one carrot;
• one egg;
• one onion;
• parsley and dill to taste;
• black pepper, salt.

This simple soup should be prepared like this:

• Wash and peel the vegetables.
• Cut the potatoes into strips or cubes.
• Cut carrots and onions into small pieces.
• Place vegetables in salted boiling water and cook for 20 minutes.
• Mix the egg with salt, finely chopped herbs, and a pinch of ground black pepper. Shake thoroughly with a fork.
• Pour the green egg mixture into the soup in a thin stream, stirring constantly with a spoon to prevent the egg from curdling in one large piece. Boil for one minute. The soup is ready!

Chicken noodle soup

How to make simple chicken noodle soup? This dish has long been firmly entrenched in the menu of Russians, being an excellent remedy for colds and an excellent first course for any season.

This soup for every day looks very beautiful and appetizing. It always gives a feeling of comfort and reminds you of the warmth of home. To create it you need to have:

• 300 g egg noodles;
• one chicken;
• three carrots;
• three potatoes;
• two large onions;
• three cloves of garlic;
• one bunch of parsley;
• 1 tsp. dried thyme;
• 5 black peppercorns;
• ground black pepper and salt.

Vegetable soups

Not everyone likes soups made with beef or pork broth. You can try a vegetable dish.

Here are some options:

1. Catalan soup is made with vegetable broth, in which potatoes, onions, beans and cilantro are placed. Beat the finished mixture in a blender, and then add pepper, cream and salt.
2. Buckwheat has a strong aroma. It is made from buckwheat, potatoes, fried onions and grated carrots. Then spices and herbs are added.
3. Vitamin soup is made from carrots, onions, rice and potatoes. Halfway through cooking, add green peas, seasoning and cauliflower.

Beef soup with vegetables

How to cook a simple soup with meat and vegetables? To create it you need to have:

• 700 g beef;
• one large onion;
• 8 tbsp. meat broth;
• one large carrot;
• three tomatoes;
• three cloves of garlic;
• a couple of potatoes;
• two bay leaves;
• two tbsp. l. sunflower oil;
• one tsp. salt;
• fresh parsley;
• 0.5 tsp. ground black pepper.

Cut the beef into cubes and fry in one tbsp. l. oil until it turns brown. Place beef on a plate. Add the chopped onion and the rest of the oil, fry for about 5 minutes until the onion turns golden.

Now add the chopped tomatoes and simmer for about five minutes. Add chopped carrots and garlic, fry for another three minutes.

Next, place all the fried ingredients in a saucepan with broth along with salt, bay leaf, beef, and diced potatoes. Stirring occasionally, bring to a boil.

Now reduce the heat, cover and simmer over low heat for half an hour until the beef is tender. Season the soup with ground black pepper and salt (if necessary). Remove the bay leaf from the soup, sprinkle with chopped parsley and serve.

Pea soup with smoked ribs

Many housewives collect simple soup recipes. Pea soup with smoked ribs is simply irresistible. Toasted white bread croutons are usually served with it. To create this soup you need to have:

• 4 liters of water;
• 500 g smoked ribs;
• one stalk of celery;
• a couple of carrots;
• 250 g split peas;
• one onion;
• two potatoes;
• two bay leaves;
• salt;
• five peas of black pepper;
• five sprigs of parsley.

Wash the peas thoroughly, cover with cold water and leave overnight (maybe a couple of hours). Place the ribs in a saucepan, add water and bring to a boil. Cook the ribs for half an hour, then add the peas and cook for about two hours until the peas are tender.

Now add chopped celery, potatoes and pre-fried carrots and onions in a pan. Wrap the parsley, bay leaf and peppercorns in a small piece of gauze and place in the soup. Bring it to a boil under the lid.

Cook over low heat for 20 minutes. Now add hot water if needed. Remove the seasoning cheesecloth from the soup. Remove the ribs, remove the meat from the bones and return them to the soup. Season with spices and salt if desired.